27 OCTOBER 1883, Page 1

Mr. James Lowther is our favourite Tory speaker. He made

a speech at Coventry, yesterday week, which ought to be re- printed and distributed by the Liberal Associations all over the country. In it, Mr. Lowther boasted that he had never been "one of those to bow the knee to the Baal of falsely- called Free-trade,--on the other hand, he had always denounced it as the most leviathan impostor of modern times, sao5ifieing the interests of the United Kingdom for the purpose of Ander- ing to the interests of those who did not own the sway of her Majesty." How Sir Stafford Northcote must groan over these speeches of Mr. Lowther's ! What use is it trying to persuade the nation that his is the cautious and reasonable party, when Mr. James Lowther is sure to make a speech just before or just after him which excites ten times as much cheering as his own because it virtually represents the late Sir Robert Peel as a. priest of Baal, who ruined England to serve the foreigner P